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January ushers in more than just winter. It is the season of the four “tions”: brumation, hibernation, migration and ...

It would be easy to envy bats, bears and hedgehogs their seasonal torpor, but research has suggested that humans once ...

Compared with the trudge to work through several feet of snow, winter hibernation sounds like a pretty cushy lifestyle. But it's not a dislike of cold, wet feet that drives some animals into a wintry ...

Scientists at the University of Utah are looking at how bears and other mammals hibernate in an effort to find genetic clues for combating human obesity and related diseases. By finding the right ...

Hibernation is a survival strategy animals use when food is scarce, especially during winter. All animals need energy to stay alive, but when cold weather makes food hard to find, some animals slow ...

Novel adaptations discovered in hibernating animals may reveal ways to mitigate injuries associated with strokes, heart attacks and organ transplants, according to researchers at the University of ...

Abnormally warm weather is affecting the hibernation activity of Ukraine's brown bears, conservationists have said. In a Facebook post, Synevyr National Nature Park in southwest Ukraine said winter is ...

Thirteen-lined gray squirrels and other hibernating mammals could provide genetics clues about the onset and treatment of human obesity. Hibernation is one of nature’s strangest quirks, inducing bears ...

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A trope in science fiction is for advanced space missions to use suspended animation for long space missions. In fiction, they usually assume that suspended animation stops aging. This will be full on ...